Land-marker.



No. 717,825. PATENTED JAN. e, 1903.

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LAND MARKER.

APPLIGATION FILED OUT; I, 1901.

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ANSELM A. ELDER, OF PORTSMOUTH, IOWA.

LAND-MARKER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 717,825, dated January 6, 1903. Application filed October '7, 1901. Serial No. 77,831 (No model.)

To ail whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANSELM A. ELDER, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Shelby and State of Iowa, have invented certain useful Improvements in Land-Markers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improved landmarker.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple device which may be attached to a hand-car or other vehicle to be dragged along to provide a out within a railroad right of way to show how far out the weeds and grass are to be cut to provide a sightly roadway and pre vent fire adjacent the rails.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side or edge elevation of a railwaynar with my land-marker as depended from the same. Fig. 2 shows a part-sectional elevation disclosing the manner in which the cutter is secured to the cutter-bar. Fig. 3 shows a detail of the cutter-bar-holding car, while Figs. iand 5 show detached details of the two dragbars as used in my invention.

As has been set forth, the object of my'invention is to provide a device which may be adjustably secured to a car to be dragged along and adjacent the rails to cut the grass and earth to provide a mark showing how far out the section-hands are to cut the grass and weeds.

In fulfilling the aim of my invention I provide a suitable car A with an ear, comprising the base-plate 2, from which extends the ear 4 proper, as is shown ill-Fig. 3. At a suitable point I provide a second ear, comprising the base-plate 25, from which extends the car 26, this car being held by means of the screws 2, the ear 4 being held by means of the screws 3. Hooked within the ear 4 by means of the hook 5 is a supporting-bar B, which has one end flattened, as is shown at 6, and provided with a number of openings7, through which extend a number of bolts 8, provided with the nuts 1, which are used to adjustably secure the L-shaped bracket 0, through which the means of the nut 13.

bolts pass, as shown more clearly in Fig. 2. This bracket C is provided below with an opening, through which extends the bolt 10,

provided with a washer 12, and to which bolt is revolubly secured the cutter-disk D by This bracket C is provided with a slot 9, through which passes a suitable bolt,which in turn passes through the bifurcated end 17 of the drag-bar member H, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 5'. This dragbar H has its bifurcated end 17 provided with an opening 18, through which extends a suitable bolt. The opposite end 20 of this drag member H is provided with the openings at, through which extend the bolts 16, as is shown in Fig. 1. The remaining drag-bar member F is hookeuded, being provided with the hook 14, while the opposite end-l5 is flattened and provided with a plurality of 'openings'x, so that these drag-bar members H and F may be suitably secured. To the ear 26 is secured the hook 14:, while the ear 4 is adapted to receive the hook 5, so that the bar B and thetwo-part drag-bar H F are both hooked to the car, as shown.

The bar B is provided at a suitable point with a seat K, upon which the operator may sit.

In being dragged along the cutter D follows the irregularities of the earth, thus pro- ;viding a well-pronounced cut, and in usinga disk cutter, as is shown at D, a well-defined gle at which the disk D is set.

The device is simple of adjustment and in ICO bracket connected tofitienrndwide of said bar, fastening devices carried by saidbracket and fitting in the openings of the snfiort: ing-bar for attaching the bracket to said bar, whereby said bracket maybe adjusted at different points longitudinally of said bar, a cutter-disk carried by said bracket for marking the ground, a sectional drag-bar extending in advance of said supporting-bar and connected at one end to said L-shaped bracket and at its other end to the car, the contiguous ends of the sections of said drag-bar being flattened and overlapping, and each provided with a series of openings, and fasten- 

